CLAYBROOKE Phil Claybrooke has joined mechanical contractor TDIndustries, Dallas, as vice president of special projects in its north Texas region. He was most recently regional sales manager for the western U.S. for Johnson Controls and also served as a global account manager at Honeywell Inc. The company reports revenue of about $300 million. Predrag “Pete” Popovic, vice president and senior principal at engineer Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc., Northbrook, Ill., has been named president of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) for three years. IABSE, based in Zurich, Switzerland, is a 4,000-member organization that works to advance

SEATON David T. Seaton has been named CEO of Fluor Corp., Irving, Texas, in a planned succession. A 26-year veteran of the contractor, he will replace in that role Alan L. Boeckmann, who will retire but becomes the firm’s non-executive chairman. The executive changes take effect on Feb. 3. Seaton, formerly chief operating officer, also served as senior group president of three Fluor units: energy and chemicals, power and government. He is a former managing director of Fluor Arabia Ltd. Boeckmann, who has been chairman and CEO since 2002, joined Fluor in 1974. Stanton “Stan” Eckstut has been named principal

CHAMBERS Craig Chambers has been named president of engineer-planner BHC Consultants, Seattle. He is a founding member of the firm and previously served as director of engineering. Gary Bourne, former president, will remain with the company as a member of the executive committee. Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, Elmwood Park, N.J., has named Philip Tringale as director of its western region. The role follows its Nov. 1 acquisition of geotechnical and environmental engineer Treadwell & Rollo, San Francisco, of which he was president. The acquisition, the first by Langan, adds 70 employees to the firm’s staff of 500 in three

LOOSE Michael K. “Mike” Loose, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and a former deputy chief of naval operations, has joined Parsons Corp., Pasadena, Calif., as senior vice president and manager of the installations and environment division in the engineer-contractor�s infrastructure and technology group. Loose, based in Washington, D.C., is a former chief of civil engineers and commander of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Parsons also named Alexander Kozlov as vice president. Based in Guam, he will support firm projects in the Pacific Rim. Kozlov, formerly a senior associate with Booz Allen & Hamilton, is a U.S. Army Reserve brigadier

TOWNES Michael Townes has joined engineer Wilbur Smith Associates, Columbia, S.C., as senior vice president and national transit services leader. He had been president and CEO of the Hampton Roads Transportation District Commission in Virginia. Townes is a board member of the Virginia High Speed Rail Development Committee and former chairman of the American Public Transportation Association Executive Committee as well as co-chairman of its reauthorization task force. He also was chairman of the Transportation Research Board’s executive committee.

HOVER Kenneth C. Hover has assumed the presidency of the American Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, Mich., following the recent death of president Richard Stehly. Hover, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., had been vice president. RBF Consulting, an engineer-planner based in Irvine, Calif., has appointed Mike Giorgione as energy- services market leader and vice president in its San Diego office. Giorgione retired from the U.S. Navy as a rear admiral this past May; his positions included vice commander for NAVFAC Pacific Division, commanding officer at Camp David and executive officer of Public Works Center

Renowned structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond is leaving Arup, the U.K.-based engineering firm where he has worked for 42 years. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" “I’m stepping out to set up my own practice,” says Balmond, who is credited with making possible some of the most audacious structures, including the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and the Centre Pompidou in Metz, France, by Shigeru Ban. “I want to have more time to make some of the big art installations I’ve been doing for the past four or five years, and I want

STATE LVI Services Inc., the New York City-based environmental and facility services firm, has named Scott E. State as president and CEO. He was CEO of U.S. Development Group LLC, a Denver consulting firm he founded. State also is former chairman and CEO of MACTEC Inc., the Atlanta engineering, environmental and construction services firm that, in his 10 years leading the company, grew to more than $500 million in revenue from $45 million, says LVI. He is based in Denver and Manhattan. Michael A. Lucki has joined CH2M Hill Cos., Denver, as senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective

BARDONARO Frank Bardonaro Jr. has joined Terex Corp., the West port, Conn.-based manufacturer of construction cranes and other equipment, as vice president and managing director of its Americas cranes unit. He was president and CEO of Amquip Crane Rental Co., Bensalem, Pa. Bardonaro is chairman of the Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association, an international trade group of more than 1,300 members from 43 nations. He was cited in 2009 as an ENR Top 25 Newsmaker for spearheading a local safety standard for tower cranes that served as a model for others nationwide. In his new Terex role, Bardonaro replaces Marco

WRIGHT Ted Wright has joined engineer-contractor KBR, Houston, as president of its North American government and defense business unit. Now based in Arlington, Va., he was most recently president of technology services and solutions for BAE Systems in Rockville, Md., the U.S. arm of U.K-based defense, security and aerospace firm BAE Systems plc. AECOM Technology Corp., Los Angeles, has appointed Gary Lawrence as vice president and chief sustainability officer. He had been the urban strategies leader in New York City for U.K-based engineering firm Arup. Lawrence also served as a sustainability adviser to the Clinton Administration’s President’s Council on Sustainable